1. How did you become a children’s author and was it something you always wanted to do? I have wanted to be a children’s author for as long as I can remember so have written a multitude of stories over the years. Although I tried for a long time before, it wasn’t until I wroteContinue reading “Meet the Author ~ Gianna Pollero”
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Dear Hope
I think it’s safe to say that everyone has faced some kind of hardship over the last year. From the obvious continuing difficulties of living through a pandemic to inequalities of all kinds, police brutality to political unsteadiness, devastating assaults to financial hardships, let alone the loneliness, worry and isolation that we’ve all experienced duringContinue reading “Dear Hope”
Books to help with Grief & Heartache
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Now this book is one I can’t easily categorise for the simple fact that I don’t know of any other book quite like it. It’s appeal is universal from when we’re tiny tots to when we’re aged with laughter lines etched in ourContinue reading “Books to help with Grief & Heartache”
January Treasures
The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside by Jessica Ryn If there’s one book to bring hope from 2020 into this grey time we’ve all found ourselves in, I’d put a copy of The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside (that’s “Brightside one word”) at the very top of the pile! Set on the coast of DoverContinue reading “January Treasures”
Meet the Author – Lucy Strange
Since then, it’s needless to say, that Lucy has become not only one of my own favourite children’s authors but has become a staple on the bookshelves of booksellers, children, teachers and readers up and down the country (and even across seas too!), and has bought the love of reading to countless children, some ofContinue reading “Meet the Author – Lucy Strange”
A Summer of Hampstead
‘One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.’ – Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle – In 2019 I plucked up the courage to work up town for 3 months whilst on a bookshop course for work, which was some what daunting as I’m not naturally a city person.Continue reading “A Summer of Hampstead”
Meet the Author ~ Anna James
Whenever a child or parent comes into the bookshop and asks for a book recommendation for 8-12 year olds, I will inevitably put a copy of Pages & Co. – Tilly and the Bookwanderers into their hands whether it’s for a girl, a boy, an avid bookworm or a reluctant reader. Ask any of myContinue reading “Meet the Author ~ Anna James”
Diverse Comics & Graphic Novels
Kamala Khan: self-professed gamer and superhero geek is 16 years old, a first generation Muslim Pakistani-American who lives with her strict but loving family in New Jersey USA. Life as a teenager can be pretty hard at times especially when you feel like you don’t fit in but with her two closest friends Bruno CarrelliContinue reading “Diverse Comics & Graphic Novels”
The Ghost of Gosswater by Lucy Strange
The Ghost of Gosswater is Lucy Strange’s third novel for children and she doesn’t disappoint her readers in the slightest! Atmospheric, chilling, intriguing and slightly gothic, the story of 12-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith (better known as Aggie) is set over several weeks, starting from a few days before Christmas 1899 through to the first coupleContinue reading “The Ghost of Gosswater by Lucy Strange”
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Midwinter Storybooks
The stories of Brambly Hedge are as quintessential to childhood for me as figgie pudding is on Christmas Day. With many stories from Brambly Hedge following the seasons of the year, we visit Brambly Hedge twice at Christmastime – once in The Winter Story and again in The Secret Staircase. With beautiful (and I meanContinue reading “Midwinter Storybooks”
Views from a Bookshop 